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downtomars
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posted August 01, 2009 02:41 AM
  
I am watching “So I Married an Ax Murderer” (classic, I know) and it makes me miss the early 90s. Clinton was just elected, grunge and “alternative” music, Gen X, slackers who lived in awesome apartments. Everything seemed more low key. Maybe I am just glamorizing it. I was young, I mean, I just turned 30 and I when I went to high school, grunge fashion and music was dying down in my junior year (1996). But I saw my family and friends older siblings having so much fun, living it up. Not to mention when I look back at the great movies – Singles, Reality Bites, Clerks, Swingers, Sleep With Me, Kicking and Screaming (most of Noah Baumbach movies actually), Wayne’s World – I miss those days. I can’t watch My So-Called Life or I’ll get sad…Now it is all about owning McMansions, looking perfect, Botox, reality tv, cell phones in public places, involuntary unemployment… Who knows though? Maybe if it was 1991 I’d probably wish it was 1977 (“Wasn’t disco great?”)… Actually, I think in some ways, it might be on its way back... Anyone else wish they were living in another decade?
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Dee
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posted August 01, 2009 03:46 AM
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DepTaurus
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posted August 01, 2009 04:12 AM
i wish i was living in the year 1994. because remeber when it was all about those beige boots and leather jackets and flannel shirts tied around your waste and jeans and jean jackets and long messy hair.i love that look who had that look cause im so jealous of it.i was like 4 in 1994 born in 1990 i missed the two best decades the 80s and i lived threw all of the 90s but not as a teenager.
i would have been cool. those were the years when friends started and party of five my two favorite shows.the best 90s songs
vouge madonna
step by step new kids on the block
pump up the jam technotronic
and my favorite song and group was EMF unbeleiivable. i love it.
been around the world lisa stansfield
so many good songs.
the 80s were cool but i dont really know much about that decade except sex everywhere and aids and leather punks what a cool decade. IP: Logged |
Dervish
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posted August 01, 2009 06:06 AM
I once dreamed I escaped an alien invasion in a time machine with my cousin Zack and my [non existent] son (in other dreams, this mysterious boy is my little brother--I don't have any sibs, either). For some reason, I took us back to 1983--in retrospect, maybe I was making sure I was born (82). And I was ready to make the best of it.The 80s was cheestastic, from movies to music (nearly all genres) to fashion. It bordered on being flamboyantly hokey. Even the televangelists were like this ("send me millions, or God kills me!"). Which amuses me enough to think I'd enjoy it.  90s were fun, too, but I think once was enough for me. And finally, let me leave you with a song I consider very perceptive (watch in LQ because HQ doesn't seem to want to play past the 1st minute):
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GypseeWind
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posted August 01, 2009 12:08 PM
That is funny that you mention this, I spent like 4 hours adding 90's videos to my myspace the other day. I am a nineties freak. I loved the music. Grunge music is the best ever, really. I mean I still love all the big hair, makeup and loud guitars of the eighties, but the stripped down, lyrically intense 90's music will never get old for me.
Pearl Jam
Stone Temple Pilots
Nirvana
Top three there, but I like so much more. I feel like 1995 was a really stellar year for me, I am not sure why (well i did have a child that year) but it seems like I changed alot as a person during that time.
And YES, I wore the messy hair, flannel shirt, cut off shorts and Doc Marten boots, which I still have, and Loved it!!IP: Logged |
lalalinda
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posted August 01, 2009 12:27 PM
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katatonic
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posted August 02, 2009 02:14 PM
yes, early 90s= pre-bush! and pre ridiculous inflation. pre 9/11. the list goes on.personally i would like to be back in the early 1600s!! in the last hundred years, i would pick the first 2 decades of the 20th c... but then we would be missing out on the huge step forward in collective consciousness. if there were any years i could go back to and change some of my actions, they would be the 60s! IP: Logged |
Dervish
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posted August 06, 2009 05:33 PM
Granny shared some cool stories from the 60s, but her disillusioning experience with a hippie commune (though might've been very early 70s) that caused her to return to Texas actually ticked me off enough that I'd go there if I could, with kicking the butts of a couple of hippies on the agenda. Actually, that commune is probably why my mom was such a ***** to me later, so it's personal...but time travel isn't invented yet, so those hippies get away with it (well, if all that they endured up to the failure of their commune can be said to "get away with it"). After she described it to me in detail, I suddenly understood why so many feminists of the 70s were furious and particularly disdaining of hippie communes. Btw, you might like this book of a time traveler who goes back to 1967 (one of my favorites):
http://www.amazon.com/Summer-Love-Lisa-Mason/dp/0553572415 Though for a much less serious and more lighthearted look (just for fun, not to be taken seriously at all), there's the ep from Sabrina the Teenage Witch where out of control magic causes her area to revert to the 60s. IP: Logged |
GypseeWind
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posted August 06, 2009 06:54 PM
Lalalinda;
Yes I did forget Alice in Chains, where was my head?
Also, Jane's Addiction
Soundgarden
and LIVE, I love LIVE.
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Shankara
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posted August 07, 2009 04:29 AM
Yes, the 1960's, where I had a past life. It was amazing; if you weren't born yet you don't know what you were missing! Sometimes I actually get a little sad and want to go back, but then I remember to just enjoy the present moment. There are a lot of exciting things happening now too! But there was such an energy then; it is hard to describe. Like a surge of consciouses just growing and spreading amongst a generation. An awakening really. You could feel it in the music, and just on the street. Though I agree with the posts above; there was a lot of hypocrisy too. Guys who were all about the peace movement yet didn't treat women well. There was violence, especially drug-induced violence at times, when the harder drugs became more popular. I think I lived in a commune too for a bit! It's all still pretty fuzzy, but I think the reason I went was for more of a spiritual focus; I wanted to escape the drug scene, which was leading a lot of well intentioned people astray by making them loose their focus. The commune I was at was more like an Ashram rather than a "free love" one. In 1993 I was 9 or 10 so those days didn't seem particularly amazing to me. I don't think in retrospect the music was that good. Grunge is overrated IMO. There are some songs from the 90's I like but in general I find it lacking compared to other decades (except for Radiohead of course!). I prefer music of the 80's, like The Smiths or The Talking Heads, or classic rock like the Beatles and Led Zeppelin, or classical music like Bach and Beethoven, or jazz like John Coltrane, or even some music coming out today. LOL, remember in the 1990s when all the music was 'Alternative' to the point there was nothing to be alternative to? You don't hear that label much anymore. Not that I remember really but based on the music and the movies it just seemed that the '80's were more "fun" than the '90's, and I think in some ways this decade is more fun too (ok, definitely not in all ways!). Plus, there was no internet yet for mass usage. How did we survive? I do remember loving at the time: My So Called Life, Clueless, certain shows on Nickelodeon (what? I was a kid!) like Fifteen, Ren and Stimpy, Welcome Freshmen, Rugrats, Clarissa Explains it All, and a lot of others, Dazed and Confused, Oasis, Green Day, Woodstock '94, The Real World (the early seasons were 1000x better than the later ones), Beavis and Butthead, Friends, Seinfeld, the Simpsons (ok, started in '89 but was popular in the 90's - I haven't watched for years because the quality is declined IMO), Buffy, Stargate, Jeremy by Pearl Jam, those young adult horror novels by RL Stine and Christopher Pike, The Babysitters Club books, New Kids on the Block (wow, what was wrong with me? Hey, I was only 7), Empire Records, Schindler's List, Forrest Gump, American Beauty, Braveheart, Clerks, Reality Bites, Dances with Wolves, Rent, X-Files, Roswell, the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Saved by the Bell, Oz, Felicity, Popular, Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club, The Usual Suspects, Memento, The Matrix, Sublime, Radiohead, U2, the first Harry Potter books, the Power of Now, Napster, 90210, the Smashing Pumpkins, and songs like Ordinary World by Duran Duran, Santa Monica by Everclear, Song 2 by Blur, Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve, Buddy Holly by Weezer, Clumsy by Our Lady Peace, Crash by DMB, Shimmer by Fuel, Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind, and Virtual Insanity by Jamiroqui, and I'm sure a lot more I can't think of right now. There is some other music from the '90's that I love now but didn't know about at the time, like Morrissey's solo work, and Oingo Boingo's last studio album and live 'Farewell' album. IP: Logged |
downtomars
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posted August 07, 2009 10:12 PM
What a great list Shankara! You brought back some great memories! I loved Blur and I still love Damon Albarn, Gorillaz – amazing. Song 2 was great but I always made my friends listen to Boys & Girls from the first album. I’m actually listening to it now since you brought it up! I am glad someone else remembers Fifteen – I keep telling people, Ryan Reynolds wasn’t always that cute! Even though I talk crap about Brad now I had this poster hanging on the wall next to my bed:  As well as this one of Andre Agassi (and his mullet!):  When he won Wimbledon in 1992, I was crying along with him as he fell to his knees! I even still have his instructional video “Attack – with Andre Agassi”. Andre, Pete Sampras, Boris Becker (yum) and Jim Courier – everyone forgets poor Jim Courier – were my faves. Now that I think about it, all sports were much better in the 90s too…I mean, Air Jordan, Charles Barkley, Dan Majerle (“Thunder Dan” yum), Kevin Johnson (the Mayor of Sacramento now, whoa), Danny Ainge (I was a Phoenix Suns fan). They were all gentlemen too, not crazy like the athletes of today. NCAA was awesome – I loved DUKE! Grant Hill, Christian Laettner (yum) and Bobby Hurley! Go BLUE DEVILS! Oh man…I miss those days… This is the most 90s sentence I have ever written: I dated a guy in high school who everyone thought looked like Eric Nies from the Real World NY and the Grind but I thought he looked more like Ted from Hey Dude (David Lascher)! He was really obsessed with being like Keanu Reeves in Point Break, he even had the cowboy boots and took up surfing – in NY, LOL!
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MoonWitch
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posted August 11, 2009 11:06 PM
haha - I thought the early 90's sucked because they weren't the 80's. Because, you know, the 80's were really the best time and everything was so much more fun then!IP: Logged |
downtomars
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posted August 13, 2009 03:25 AM
Great music came out of the 80s most definitely, I would even go so far as to say that the best music came out of that decade. I just miss the feeling in 1992, everyone seemed so much more laid back...Someone correct me if I am over-romanticizing it... IP: Logged |
GypseeWind
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posted August 13, 2009 04:15 PM
your not, IMHO, I think about it all the time. My myspace is a 90's wonderland. I go there and chill everyday, just thinkin, and rememberin.....I graduated high school in 84, and was a young adult then. The rock music was great, the music videos were awesome. The hair was fun. The clothes, ewwww. And waaaay too much synthysizer in the music.
I loved the glam rock bands tho, that was cool. I don't know, for me it was just a weird time, trying to figure out who I was as a person in a time where everything was kinda, IN YOUR FACE, it was difficult.
But I feel sorry for the kids now. OMG.
Look what inflences them?! IP: Logged |
cpn_edgar_winner
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posted August 13, 2009 04:26 PM
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GypseeWind
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posted August 14, 2009 12:54 PM
Cpn, psssh, you look totally hot now!
But I think I know what you mean. My kids were born in 91,95 and 98. I had a little red mustang and strapped the first one in and went everywhere with my radio blastin. She was a perfect pisces angel in a punkin seat. Then I had to get a bigger car, so I got a skyblue/silver thunderbird with electric EVERYTHING to drive the two around in. My kids say I taught them music education cuz I would drive around for no reason and sing as loud as I could, and they still remember it.
One time we went to a small lake a few miles away. I convinced them that if they put messages in a bottle, they would travel all the oceans and end up in some exotic place. They didn't notice the lake began and end in a very small area.
Another time we took baloons to the Miamisburg Mound where the Indians are all buried, I told them if they make a wish, as long as it was a good wish and not a greedy wish, the indians would make sure it came true, then we released the balloons.
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Dervish
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posted August 14, 2009 10:21 PM
Sounds like to some that the 90s some speak of here wasn't about the 90s itself, but about being without responsibilities & obligations. Not that I'm saying that's a bad thing, of course.  IP: Logged |
GypseeWind
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posted August 15, 2009 03:47 PM
Maybe Dervish, although I had three small children, so that was more responsibility than I have now that their older.
But I see your point, we are looking at it somewhat nostalgically, not necessarily politically or anything like that.IP: Logged |
taurusvirgoleolady1974
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posted August 15, 2009 11:00 PM
the best decade for me was the 70's.
the 70's were great bc i was still naive, for one thing.
and my whole family was still here and they were my world.
and i loved my parents immensely. (moms still here, though.)
everyone else is gone so i cherish this decade the most. we had big cars, 8 track tapes, and mom was young and happy. we watched alice, and the carol burnette show.
i loved going to preschool and kindergarten.
the 80's were good, but not as good as the 70's for me.IP: Logged |
cpn_edgar_winner
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posted August 16, 2009 07:30 AM
perhaps it was more the time in my life it corrosponded to. either way, it will always be a nostalgic time for me. IP: Logged |
Dee
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posted September 25, 2012 06:35 PM
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